Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Age rating
- 15
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.
- england
- biography
- based on true story
- hangman
- executioner
- capital punishment
- 1940s
- 1950s
The bill
Timothy Spall
Albert Pierrepoint
Juliet Stevenson
Annie Pierrepoint
Mary Stockley
Ruth Ellis
Lizzie Hopley
Dorothea Waddingham
- Joyia Fitch — Elizabeth Volkenrath
- Sheyla Shehovich — Irma Grese
- Simon Armstrong — Minister
- Ann Bell — Violet Van Der Elst
- Tobias Menzies — Lieutenant Llewelyn
- Eddie Marsan — James 'Tish' Corbitt
- Nicholas Blane — Governor of Strangeways
- Clive Brunt — Warder at Strangeways
- Cavan Clerkin — George Cooper
- James Corden — Kirky
- Claire Keelan — Jessie Kelly
- Directed
- Adrian Shergold
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 84 ratings
- Studio
- UK Film Council, Granada Productions
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